2001 B.C. Junior Championship

	Name	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	Total
1	Roman Jiganchine	2253	W8	W3	W5	W6	L2	4.0
2	Fanhao Meng	1970	W11	W4	L6	W10	W1	4.0
3	John Wilson	1842	W18	L1	W11	W7	W8	4.0
4	Yamei Wang	1826	W19	L2	W14	W5	W6	4.0
5	Lucas Davies	1924	W17	W14	L1	L4	W10	3.0
6	Kaleim Nathani	1882	W13	W15	W2	L1	L4	3.0
7	Benedict Daswani	1763	L14	W12	W18	L3	W13	3.0
8	Gavin Atkinson	1736	L1	W13	W15	W9	L3	3.0
9	Jason Lee	1919	W12	H---	L10	L8	W16	2.5
10	Louis Cheng	1829	H---	W16	W9	L2	L5	2.5
11	Valentina Goutor	1724	L2	W19	L3	D18	W15	2.5
12	Graham Sadoway	1605	L9	L7	L13	B---	W18	2.0
13	Lawrence Bau	1575	L6	L8	W12	W14	L7	2.0
14	Glen Nogayev	1481	W7	L5	L4	L13	W19	2.0
15	Tiffany Tang	1319	B---	L6	L8	W17	L11	2.0
16	Noam Davies	1700	H---	L10	D17	D19	L9	1.5
17	Yaroslav Goutor	1622	L5	L18	D16	L15	B---	1.5
18	Rostyslav Pildysh	1518	L3	W17	L7	D11	L12	1.5
19	Peter Sum	1492	L4	L11	B---	D16	L14	1.5

The B.C. Junior Champion for 2001 is Roman Jiganchine. However, despite having a 283 rating point cushion over the rest of the field, his road to the title was not without incident. Having won his first four games, in the last round Roman contrived to lose to Fanhao Meng, thus producing a four-way tie(!) between Jiganchine, Meng, John Wilson and Yamei Wang. Yamei declined to take part in the playoffs, which left three to go through the excitement/agony of sudden-death tie-break games. Following a round of 15 minute/player games the scores were still tied, so we went to a second round of 5 minute/player games. After two games Jiganchine and Meng each had a win, but in the third game Wilson had King and Rook against Jiganchine's lone King. Unfortunately for John his flag fell (well, actually fortunately from the TD's perspective), thus Roman drew the game and "won" the championship. Black won all the playoff games and was winning in the final drawn game!

The tournament was held at the Vancouver Bridge Centre on the weekend of November 10-12, 2001. Katherine Davies was the organizer, Stephen Wright the tournament director. In addition to the main first prize of a trip to the Canadian Junior Championship, prizes were also awarded for Best Game and Biggest Upset. Ben Daswani and Yamei Wang shared the former, for their wins against Graham Sadoway and Kaleim Nathani respectively, while Tiffany Tang won the latter by beating Yaroslav Goutor, a 303 point difference.

Some games from the event

Reserve Section

	Name	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	Total
1	Danny Yu	1315	W4	W3	W2	W8	D6	4.5
2	Andrew Petchenov	1288	W5	W6	L1	W4	L3	3.0
3	Thomas Chow	1113	W7	L1	L5	B---	W2	3.0
4	Jamie Harper	1083	L1	W7	W6	L2	W8	3.0
5	Laura Harper	1009	L2	W8	W3	L6	B---	3.0
6	Stefan Trandafir	1118	W8	L2	L4	W5	D1	2.5
7	Gregory Lam	646	L3	L4	H---	H---	H---	1.5
8	Athena Lam	853	L6	L5	H---	L1	L4	0.5